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- On Earth, we find life everywhere we look, from the crushing depths of ocean trenches to boiling volcanic pools. But when we look to the Moon, the planets, or the stars, we don’t see the teeming ecosystems that we do here. Life, as we know it today, exists in only one place: Earth.
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Oct 16, 2023 · How would we know whether there is life on Earth? This bold experiment found out. Thirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth...
Sep 19, 2022 · The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need to better understand what geochemical conditions nurtured the first life forms.
Nov 17, 2021 · WE CAN attempt to answer the question of why we exist in a literal sense: by tracing our human story back through the whorls and rifts of evolution, through the contested origins of life on...
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May 9, 2018 · Is the existence of life on Earth a lucky fluke or an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature? Is it simple for life to emerge on a newly formed planet, or is it the virtually...
- Jack Szostak
- 2018
Jun 13, 2023 · But a true understanding of life, on Earth or some other world, likely will require us to unravel even earlier beginnings: the ignition of stars with their freight of life’s building blocks, the formation of planets from protoplanetary disks, the energy and chemistry of surfaces and atmospheres.
Aug 28, 2017 · Is life on Earth a fluke? Or is life as natural as the universal laws of physics? Jeremy England, a biophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is trying to answer these...
Mar 8, 2024 · For millions of years, Earth was a hot and rocky planet. Scientists have some hypotheses on how life emerged amid such inhospitable terrain.
